Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from China and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Mark Hollis to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Raincoats. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Banda Bassotti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
X-Ray Spex,
Kevin Saunderson,
ABBA,
Little Man,
Fad Gadget,
Youth Brigade,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ronnie Foster,
The Victims,
Sam Rivers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
the Association,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Blancmange,
Bizarre Inc.,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pantaleimon,
The Grass Roots,
Lou Christie,
Bang On A Can,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Swans,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Rod Modell,
The Offenders,
Motorama,
Joy Division,
The Monochrome Set,
Cluster,
Skaos,
Darondo,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Curtis Mayfield,
Animal Collective,
The Names,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Angels of Light,
Camouflage,
Nico,
Leonard Cohen,
Derrick Morgan,
U.S. Maple,
Technova,
Swell Maps,
Monolake,
Main Source,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Throbbing Gristle,
PIL,
Robert Wyatt,
Shuggie Otis,
Andrew Hill,
The Gladiators,
The Divine Comedy,
The Mojo Men,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Connie Case,
Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.